Hi, we have some websites that we would like nginx service to redirect them to an alternative website. everything's setup properly like we've created a cname redirecting to a different website which is setup in nginx as well.

When I ping the website (suppose to be redirected), it detects the nginx server IP, so meaning to say, it is resolving using the nginx server or nginx redirection server. but for some reason it doesn't reaches the alternate website.

Regards,
Thanks

Instead of using cname records use A records and add the following code within your Nginx configuration file:

return 301 https://yourwebsite.com$request_uri;
or
return 301 http://yourwebsite.com$request_uri;

Does this make sense?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/19/2016 04:03PM by schnappi.